Physophical Question of the Day:

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Physophical question of the week day:

A while back, one the kids I watch was doing their spelling homework, making sentances with their spelling words. The sentance the kid came up with (and he was rather proud of this) was:

"We burned the church down to the ground."

I was kind of horrified by this, and steered the sentance to something else, also using the spelling words. But he couldn't understand why I was disturbed by this sentance and I couldn't figure why he wasn't. Until he said that he'd never been to one. To him, a church was just a building. ~_~

-Since his father is supposedly bringing them up Christian, that's for him to teach them about and one discussion I'm not getting into. I'm there to make sure homework gets done.

But I was talking to my Dad about this and he made a comment that has had me thinking. He thought that it was a pity that the kids weren't going to some sort of church, because religion tended to be one of the major things that shaped one's morals and sense of right and wrong.

I've been kind of pondering that ever since... Just how much does religion reflect on a person's sense of morals or is something that is more dependant on the person?

er, does that make sense? ._.

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Comments

[kosaginolegion.livejournal.com]

I have to admit that I tend to be mildly offended by the presumption that without religion it's harder to develop a sense of right and wrong. I'm not an atheist, or even an agnostic. It's actually that I don't really care if there's some supernatural force expecting us to do good. It doesn't matter in the long run to me because doing the right thing is doing the right thing.

That's not to say that one *shouldn't* have religion if that's what moves one to do good. So I suppose my answer is that morality and ethics are dependent on the person and not on the religion. With, perhaps, the exception of those religions that take the view that it doesn't matter what you do to people as long as you, yourself, get what you want. But the vast majority of religions and philosophies aren't like that. Fortunately.